Teaching Across Age Levels

When we teach Childre, Adults or Teens, there is a huge differece, so that's why we have some help from books and some analysis:

Teaching Children: This is (for me) the best way of teaching English, Teaching Children is easy work and hard work at the same time, why? you may ask.
This is beacuse we know that children are very enerjetic, they like playing a lot, but as they play and interact in the classroom, spontaneously (subconsciously) they can grasp more language than an Adult.
How is this possible? Well, children focus their attencion in random things, things that they LEARN unconsciously, but Adults have the abbility of FOCUSING in what they want to learn, that takes us to the next level...

Teaching Adults: Unlike children, adults get their attencion into one thing, that is harder for a child...because of that attencion, that way of focusing of an adult, they can retain more information, more vocabulary, and stuff.

Here we have some ground rules for teaching adults:

I - Remember that since they are learning, adults are not capable to express ideas in the target language as easy as an experienced learner does it.

II - Don't treat adults like if they were children. Avoid calling them "kids," or treating them like little childs.

III - Don't let them as much freedom you give to children. Adults can understand it as a silly class.

IV - Since you can apply some games or activities to teach English to adults, don't make them too easy. They have to be planned according to the level.

And last but not least...

Teaching Teens: This may be the HARDEST way of teaching English, in the middle of children and adults, we have TEENS. Since that is the most critical age for a human being, the stage where we decide our future.

Teens are forming their character and that is the most delicate part in their life, if they feel like "useful" that is going to be a scar for life, that's why we have to be very careful when we are working with teenagers, not treating them like children but also not as an adult...